It was a free comic given away in the Dallas Times Herald around the time the other issues we're covering in this month were published.

As far as I know it's considered non canonical, and though I've only ever skimmed it, it's pretty bad.

But I wanted to cover it because A. It was one of those oddball issues that used to have a big presence on the back issue market for some reason and B. I thought it would interesting to look, as the X-Men's popularity continued to skyrocket around this time, at how they were being presented to a large, non-comic book reading audience (and, also, because I needed something outside the run of the regular series to cover along with that Marvel Team-Up annual).

I look forward to MTU Annual #6. It was omitted from the New Mutants Classic trades, so I was a bit confused when Sunspot and Wolfsbane suddenly started talking about that time they met Cloak and Dagger.

@Matt: so I was a bit confused when Sunspot and Wolfsbane suddenly started talking about that time they met Cloak and Dagger.

Yeah, it gets referenced a couple times in the series proper, so I figured it was worth covering. And the timing of its on sale date coincides almost eerily with the best place to insert the State Fair issue in the the run of X-Men (again, not that it's canon and it really matters anyway. But at least it wont severely interrupt the flow of Smith's run).

@Dan: Is there anything in there to suggest the State Fair issue isn't canon?

Magneto is portrayed more as a traditional "super-villain" and not in the more nuanced way we saw in the contemporaneous "God Loves, Man Kills", and the new mutant character that gets introduced never really shows up again, but that's about it.

As far I know, the biggest indicator that it's not canon is that none of the Marvel Indexes or Handbooks reference it.